Dole Food Company

Dole Food Company, Inc., is a Westlake Village, California-based agricultural multinational corporation and is the leading grower and packer of such food items as banana, nuts, pineapple and other fresh fruits and vegetables. It was founded in 1851 in Hawaii as Hawaiian Pineapple Company by James Dole, who opened his first pineapple plantation in the central plateau of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Today the company does business in over 90 countries and takes in upwards of US$5.3 billion in annual revenue.

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Westlake Village, California - Agricultural - Multinational corporation - Banana - Nuts - Pineapple - 1851 - Hawaii - James Dole - Oahu - US$ - Billion - Revenue

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The Hawaiian Pineapple Company was later acquired by Castle & Cooke, which was renamed Dole Food Company, Inc in 1991. Castle & Cooke Inc, a real estate company, was spun off in 1995 and now separately listed. Dole incorporates the Standard Fruit Company, which was acquired by Castle & Cooke between 1964 and 1968. It was then the USA's second largest producer and importer of bananas. Dole and Chiquita remain the top two U.S. banana companies.

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1991 - Real estate - 1995 - Standard Fruit Company - 1964 - 1968 - Chiquita

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Historically, the Hawaiian Pineapple Company had a hand in the overthrow of Hawaii's last Queen, Liliuokalani, and helped the U.S. establish Hawaii as a territory. Sanford Dole, the cousin of James Dole, was briefly president of the Republic of Hawaii in the years immediately following the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, in 1893.

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